Penny Arcade = good.
Steak and onions = good.
So, Penny Arcade is steak and onions.

I was catching up on some Penny Arcade today and came across this. Laughed my ass off.

First have a look at this.
“Changing the date for setting the amount of pipeline safety fees.”

Then read the comic here.

I made a real simple pixel-ish background for myself.. I thought it was kind of cool so here it is for sharing! It’s small. Meant to be put on a black background and centered… so it’s one size fits all.

(right click. save as)

Poker tonight was awesome. We had 9 players, and the pot was healthy. I took home the bacon worth $360.

When there was just two of us left, I had 8 7 unsuited, and the flop came down 8, 7, 3. Two pair in heads up is damned good so I went all in ($110), and he called. He flipped over Q 6! I was in great shape and doubled up, and from there on I didn’t lose a hand.

<3 Poker.

Also.. it was my boss I was playing against. :P

I went in a little early to work this morning, and as I was walking to the lunchroom to grab a coffee, I walked by another guys radio that he had left on from the night before. He must like an easy listening station or something.. Anyway, as I walked by it started playing Rick Astley - Never gonna Give You Up. I felt like I got Rick Roll’D at work..

As I was laughing about that out loud to myself, another guy that had come in early walked around and corner and caught me laughing alone like a maniac.. now he probably thinks I’m a crazy person.

I have been tossing around the idea of making a complete-as-I-can-remember list of all games I have finished (seen credits, etc) over the years. I finally got down to it while bored at work and starting jotting down the names of the games I had finished in my phone. After gathering quite a big list from the depths of my memory, from Commodore 64 and the Amiga, all the way up to PS3/PC games of today. I pitched my idea to fydo on IRC. He promptly said that he had already done such a list, and pointed me towards backloggery.com which is just the place to keep track of all this.

The site allows you to add games and set a status for them. “Playing”, or “Wish list” as well as “unfinished”, “beaten”, “completed”, or “mastered”. I added the games I’m playing now (Left 4 Dead and Quake 3 Arena in LIVE form), and got to adding all the games I had written down in my phone.

This is a pretty cool idea in my opinion, much better than the plan I had to just add it to here in a table. :P

Anyways, check out my profile if you’re willing to give in to the reality that I am better at games than you.

Some ones of note that I’m sort-of proud of:

• Half-Life 2: Episode 2 (all achievements done, rocket man, 333 grubs, etc)
• Little Big Planet (all levels 100% complete, Kyle and I did this together)

Some ones of note that stick out as incredible games (for their time, or even now):

• MDK II (So fun, I have finished it many times)
• Quake III Arena (Rocket Arena III, oh how I loved thee)
• Left 4 Dead (incredible gameplay, funnest co-op game ever made)
• Rollcage II (the first racing game with a puzzle mode that I played, changed the way I look at racing games forever)
• Syndicate (Open style play, mass violence, and the first game with an “active city”. Like GTA3, but very old)
• Serious Sam Series (Intense co-op play, one of the best lan games there is to this day)
• Trackmania Series (best racing games ever made.. hands down)